The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-04-27
BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS.
Secession Hill Now the Most Beauti-
full Place in Abbeyille County.

The crest Of Secession Hill Is now owned by
Mr.. J. f. c. DuPre, and Is In a beautiful state
Of cultivation. The hillside. on which the
former days is now field OF living green
being well set in grass, beneath grove Of
beautiful white oaks.
On the Southern exposure OF the crown of
the hill is q well kept vineyard OF some two
hundred and fifty grape vines, including fiji.
teen varieties. The vineyard was set in the
Fall of 1884. and last year made something
like fifty bushels Of grapes, and this year Mr.;
bushels Between the rows are vegetables,
corn and melons, 80 that not one foot Of
ground Is wasted. The pit or hot house, Is
vegetables. Abundant flowers grow there all
winter-no artificial heat being necessary. A
great quantity OF his choicest flowers and
fruit trees are from cuttings. A year or two
surpassed for beauty and nice culture, sent
him Il large waiter covered with the incest
flowers from her garden. After ornamenting
his parlor for day or two and affording
tings from nearly every variety OF this great
collection Of flowers, and planted them in
pure fine sand, in boxes with holes for drain
age, and eight out OF every ten grew. and will
stems ornament and beautify Mrs. Law
sons grounds.
Mr.. DuPre has many vegetables in an ad-
vanced growth. Cucumbe are nearly ready
to bloom. They are growing, In the pit or hot
house, in oyster cans, which have had the
bottoms melted out, and which were filled
with rich soil and placed ON top Of box OF
sand. The roots are now long. and when he
chooses to set them out, he will put the cans
In the ground and slip them up over the soil
without disturbing 1t or the roots Of the vege-
tables.
In the yard beneath the shade trees he has
boxes of sand in which cuttings from many
varieties of valuable fruit are growing. Fine
apples are there in abundance, while pears,
and other specimens are to be seen. This Is
done by putting the cuttings In fine sand,
which Is kept wet and protected from the
sun. The trees thus secured cost almost
nothing, and are worth fully rs much as the
trees from the nurseries which cost from
fifty cents to two dollars apiece.
In one bed 160 choice lilies are growing from
the seed. These plants usually sell for about
fifty cents.
Numbers of pecan seed have sprouted, and
now the plants are from three to six inches
above the ground.
In the poultry department which is en-
closed separately, Mr. DuPre has some of the
choicest specimens of fowls. White Holland
turkeys are the finest In the world. and his
After experimenting for years in fancy
breed fowls Mr.. DnPre has come to the con-
clusion that the Wyandotte chicken Is best
suited to this climate, and, for all purposes,
most profitable He has scores Of little chicks,
and fine display Of grown fowls Of this vari-
ETY..
TO keep good supply of water for his gar
den and the fowls Mr.. DuPre arranges half
of the house. The waterspout enters one, and
then connecting pipes convey the water to all
the barrels alike. The barrels being closed at
the top no evil effects from the presence of
In one lets out the water rs 1t is needed.
AS whole, Secession Hill is beauty, and 1t
is hoped that 1t may be to Mr.. DuPrc and his
family, joy forever.